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4021388Black Heartshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/black-hearts-9780307450982/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3616512/d9e71b07-473b-4a9b-9191-db463012f45e.jpg?v=638385631815100000254353MXNCrownInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Divisions fabled 502nd Infantry Regimenta unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraqs so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the countrys most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.</p><p>Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battaliondescended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.</p><p>Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq Warthe rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpostone killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives.</p><p><em>Black Hearts</em> is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, <em>Black Hearts</em> is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.</p>...3957442Black Hearts254353https://www.gandhi.com.mx/black-hearts-9780307450982/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3616512/d9e71b07-473b-4a9b-9191-db463012f45e.jpg?v=638385631815100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20109780307450982_W3siaWQiOiJhOTNlMjhhYy02Y2JlLTQ4ODctYTY5NC04MmQzYzZlNWY5NDIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM1MywiZGlzY291bnQiOjk5LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1NCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307450982_<p><strong>Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Divisions fabled 502nd Infantry Regimenta unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraqs so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the countrys most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.</p><p>Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battaliondescended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.</p><p>Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq Warthe rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpostone killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives.</p><p><em>Black Hearts</em> is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, <em>Black Hearts</em> is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.</p>...9780307450982_Crownlibro_electonico_59673e07-7f79-4712-9440-ce7c7ed599c4_9780307450982;9780307450982_9780307450982Jim FrederickInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-0f76972f-8a2e-4bbb-82b6-99c2da9f1c57.epub2010-02-09T00:00:00+00:00Crown